MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date of release March 25, 2013
WHERE: Student Lounge/Games Room near the SGA on the Second floor of the overpass between Parker Bldg and Arts Bldg
WHEN: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
WHO: Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (CYCC),350.org, LU Veg Heads, Sustainable Earth Club, Citizens Climate Lobby
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WHAT: Free Pancake Breakfast and education about LU divesting from fossil fuels
WHY: Because it is unconscionable to pay for our education with investments that will condemn the planet to climate disaster, we call on SCHOOL to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds.
BACKGROUND: Fossil Fools Day is being organized nationally on campuses across by Fossil Free Canada.
https://www.facebook.com/events/214666655341764/?fref=ts
http://gofossilfree.ca/fossil-fools-day/
To date over 250 campuses across North America have joined the movement to divest from fossil fuels, with 4 schools already having announced plans to divest. The day of action follows the release of a report by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives that highlights the danger of Canada’s “Carbon Bubble” for pension funds and other investments.
QUOTES:
“Fossil Fuel investments are bad for the environment and they exacerbate poverty. As well, more and more financial analysts, economists and banks are coming out and warning us that fossil fuels are on the way out, and their market values are on the way down, it’s time to invest in real solutions and get out of the business of climate change. To transition to renewable energy, we need to stop investing in more fossil fuel infrastructure,” says Pamela Charron.
“The barriers to transitioning to a low carbon economy are mainly social and political not technological or economic. Universities are meant to be crucibles of change and they should be leading the way. LU should divest. It might improve their ranking on the MacLean’s University rankings system, as ethical investments may soon become one of the criteria by which universities will be judged,” according to Cathy Orlando, National Manager of Citizens Climate Lobby.
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